Juan Lasserre: inmigrante francés y periodista rioplatense (1826-1850)

ABSTRACT Juan Lasserre, a French immigrant who arrived in Buenos Aires in the mid-1820s, pioneered the French-speaking press in the region and played a leading role in the journalism in Rio de la Plata for a quarter of a century between 1826 and 1850. Although he was not the first Frenchman with participation in local journalism, he was the first to do it in a continuous and systematic way, and to achieve some notoriety with initiatives, even before the arrival and fame of Swiss-French César Hipólito Bacle and his lithographic workshop. But his journalistic activity was truncated again and a...